Fall of 2011

Fall of 2011

OCTOBER 

Fall is the season of birthdays for us. Most of Jack's friends all have birthdays in the Fall. So it was lots of fun to go to lots of parties to celebrate.

 Jack started Joy School with his friends Lucy, Molly, Walker and Gavin. I don't think we ever got a picture of all of them. He loved it until we moved and made lots of crafts.
 

We headed to Disneyland for Brennan's 3rd birthday. Brennan had been so excited for months so it was fun to be there when he finally was able to go celebrate. Plus we love Kristy and Travis. Jack and Brennan are always best buddies and born about 2 months apart. Right when they saw each other they held hands and started running to Disneyland. Since we were only there a day it was all about the boys. We really only went on kid rides. My highlight was seeing how happy Disneyland made the boys. At 11 pm Jack was yelling "more rides." We also saw our friends from Michigan the Gray's and the Price's plus my high school friend Jon Mason and his wife. How fun! I think this is our new tradition for Brennan's birthday.

Fun pictures of the boys!

For Halloween we went to the Arboretum with our friends. It was a lot of craziness with all our kids but a bundle to fun as well. 

My friend Elise took some family pictures for Christmas cards. Jack was very cooperative because a new spiderman was the reward.

 Favorite thing to do it play superheroes with his best friend Gavin.
 
Airplane crafts on our way to Utah

Grandpa Jack's house with auntie Rachel

A Halloween festival

My sister always gets Jack a cake and celebrates his "birthday" when we are in UT. This is one spoiled kiddo. Jack was obsessed with spiders....

Point of the mountain petting zoo.

Shawn's work put on a big Halloween production. This year's theme was Dr. Seuss. It was really cool. The marketing floor spends the whole week decorating and designing.

October 28 we went to the BYU football game. Jack surprisingly watched the entire game.

Jack trying to comb his friend's hair. I thought it was pretty cute.

Ward Halloween party.

Trick or Treating with friends. We had pizza and then went out. For some reason Jack only wanted to wear his superman shirt. I went with it because I don't have much energy to fight over things that don't really matter when I am pregnant.

NOVEMBER                                                                                

To be honest I can't really remember a lot about November and I don't have any pictures. We drove to the Ozark mountains in Arkansas for Thanksgiving. Shawn's parents had a time share that we used. It was actually beautiful and really fun. Unfortunately on the way home Jack was playing games on our phone and deleted every picture/video we took. I was pretty devastated since I had so many cute pictures of Jack and Shawn.

Highlights of Arkansas: Jack fishing for the first time, feeding the fish was hysterical, hiking, miniature golfing, Jack so proud of himself for climbing the tall wall of rocks in front of our house, our friends the Edwards joined us for a couple of days, playing games, and the coolest part was seeing the caves at Blanchard Springs Cavern in the Ozark National Forest. I so wish we had pictures of this trip. The caves were seriously amazing and the drive through the forest was beautiful. We also went to a fish hatchery but it was just stinky and not that cool. The lakes and rivers of Arkansas are beautiful. Who would have known that Arkansas has so much to offer. I hope we get back again. This is the only picture I had. Jack loved the huge tub in our bedroom.